[ale] Unix Automation?

[Geoffrey Myers]

Chris Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 05:23 -0700, Damon Chesser wrote:
>> I am curious, having never used Unix, anybody have a clue what  he
>> might have meant? 
> 
> What he meant was that he was not really a UNIX geek and that Linux
> perplexed him :)
> 
> Sorry,  I've never bit**ed about things being automatic.  If anything
> I've complained about things being too automatic making it harder for
> newbies to learn the internals so they can fix real problems.
> 
> As I said before.  When I got into Linux vi was our config tool and we
> learned more about UNIX then than a noob will learn today in the same
> amount of time.  If you had to download a base X config and then
> configure it for your desktop using vi then raise your hand....

<raises hand>

yeah, how about calculating mode lines for your config? :)


> Everyone else get off my lawn!
> 
> 
> Chris
> 
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